by Charlotte Mannion | Feb 6, 2025 | General News
If you had to pick between paying your rent or buying food, because you couldn’t afford both, what would you do? That’s the choice that our guest and now volunteer Callum faced. He’d got into debt, and his financial difficulties were building. He wasn’t working and...
by Charlotte Mannion | Jan 20, 2025 | General News
Direct from London’s West End and the four-time smash-hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Myra’s Story will visit the Wyvern Theatre on Tuesday 4th February 2025 and is partnering up on the night with local Swindon charity Big Breakfast Plus to raise funds and awareness. Big...
by Charlotte Mannion | Dec 13, 2024 | Case studies, Homelessness
Picture the scene. It’s a Sunday morning, you’re homeless, you’re cold and your bed for the night is a bus stop in Swindon. Then you are gently shaken awake by a near stranger who invites you into the warmth for a cooked breakfast and as many hot drinks as you could...
by Charlotte Mannion | Nov 14, 2024 | General News, Press, Volunteers
We are among a select group of volunteers to be awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2024. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and is equivalent to an MBE. We serve breakfasts seven days a week at the Pilgrim Centre...
